Amazon People. Recent articles on people in the Amazon Featured video: celebrities speak out for Yasuni (04/02/2014) A group of celebrities, including recent Academy Award winner Jared Leto, Law and Order's Benjamin Bratt, and Kill Bill's Daryl Hannah, have lent their voices to a new Public Service Announcement to raise signatures to protect Ecuador's Yasuni National Park from oil drilling.
Mother of God: meet the 26 year old Indiana Jones of the Amazon, Paul Rosolie (03/17/2014) Not yet 30, Paul Rosolie has already lived a life that most would only dare dream of—or have nightmares over, depending on one's constitution. New $20,000 reporting grant explores benefits of Amazonian protected areas (02/21/2014) With six Special Reporting Initiatives (SRI) already under way, Mongabay.org is excited to announce a call for applications for its latest journalism grant topic: Amazonian protected areas: benefits for people.
Helping the Amazon's 'Jaguar People' protect their culture and traditional wisdom. Indigenous peoples in Brazil. Indigenous girl of Terena tribe The Indigenous peoples in Brazil (Portuguese: povos indígenas no Brasil) comprise a large number of distinct ethnic groups who inhabited the country prior to the European invasion around 1500. Unlike Christopher Columbus, who thought he had reached the East Indies, the Portuguese, most notably Vasco da Gama, had already reached India via the Indian Ocean route when they reached Brazil. Nevertheless the word índios ("Indians") was by then established to designate the people of the New World and continues to be used today in the Portuguese language to designate these peoples, while the people of India are called indianos in order to distinguish the two. At the time of European contact, some of the indigenous peoples were traditionally mostly semi-nomadic tribes who subsisted on hunting, fishing, gathering, and migrant agriculture.
Origins[edit] Questions about the original settlement of the Americas has produced a number of hypothetical models. Terena people. Amazon Tribes - Indigenous People of the Rainforest. The Amazon - Amazon Rainforest in Brazil. The South American continent is home to the largest tropical rainforest in the world - The Amazon Rain Forest. 6 countries are part of this enormous maze of natural diversity. Portuguese, Spanish and English are the three more widely spoken languages in Brazil. These countries are host to many visitors every year and most cities have a very metropolitan grace about them. High in the Andes the river begins - hundreds of tiny streams trickling down rocks to complete a journey of more than 4,080 miles, flowing down the gentle slope of Brazil's interior out to the Atlantic Ocean. The combination of nature and culture make discovering the Amazon Basin an unequalled experience. Lodging, Information, Tours, and other fellow travelers make the bustling port of Manaus an excellent introduction to the waterways that crisscross the nation of Brazil.
At Manaus you can explore many options for your Amazon rain forest tours. You may wish to add a tour along the Inca Amazon Trail on to your cruise. The amazon. Amazon rainforest. Etymology The name 'Amazon' is said to arise from a war Francisco de Orellana fought with a tribe of Tapuyas and other tribes from South America. The women of the tribe fought alongside the men, as was the custom among the entire tribe.[2] Orellana derived the name Amazonas from the mythical Amazons of Asia and Africa described by Herodotus and Diodorus in Greek legends.[2] History Natural Aerial view of the Amazon rainforest, near Manaus The rainforest likely formed during the Eocene era. Aerial view of the Amazon rainforest. During the mid-Eocene, it is believed that the drainage basin of the Amazon was split along the middle of the continent by the Purus Arch. More than half of the dust needed for fertilizing the Amazon rainforest is provided by the Bodélé depression in Sahara.
Human activity Geoglyphs on deforested land in the Amazon rainforest, Acre. Left - nutrient-poor soil; right - terra preta Biodiversity The rainforest contains several species that can pose a hazard. Deforestation.